ABSTRACT
Under the slogan ‘If we stop, the world stops’, the Spanish feminist movement organized a 24-hour labour, education, care and consumption women’s strike on 8 March 2018 that amazed both international and national public opinion. After all, Spain has traditionally been a Catholic country and its feminist movement is barely institutionalized, lacking both structure and funding. The present profile sets out to account for the 8M strike and points to a long organization process within a broad protest cycle as keys to its success.
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Notes
1. There are no estimates as to how many people joined the 24-hour labour strike.
2. At a regional level, the Catalan nationalist movement has also been mobilizing massively in the last few years.
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Inés Campillo
Inés Campillo is a lecturer in Sociology at the Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA). Her research interests include comparative social policy, care, gender relations, sociology of work and political sociology.